It will certainly take a month before the Flexwijk on the Groene Dijk in Assen gets its first residents. The delivery of the first four residential buildings is delayed. But the municipality hopes to festively open the first houses at the end of April.
The Flexwijk, which gets a total of 150 houses, has been set up in a short time. The first units of the flexible residential buildings were delivered last September by the Central Government Real Estate Agency in Assen. In the first instance, it concerns 96 homes in four residential complexes. They look like gallery flats of three floors high.
Initially, Assen raced on first habitation in March. But in the finishing of the houses, a considerable delay occurred at the beginning of this year due to a shortage of technical staff, so that the construction of electricity and water spoke. Work is now being done on the design of the houses, including laying laminate floors.
The houses are intended for emergency seekers and status holders, among others. With the Flexwijk, which will soon consist of 150 houses, Assen wants to alleviate the housing shortage somewhat. At the end of 2023, the city council concluded a deal with a central real estate and the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers. The residential buildings, which consist of switched units, have been stored for a long time. They were intended to quickly realize extra living places in the country. But that ran less energetically than expected, because there were no suitable construction sites.
ASSEN then came up with the initiative for a Flexwijk on the Groene Dijk business park, with space for 150 houses. In return for getting the residential complexes of the Central Government Real Estate Agency, Assen has to make 48 houses available for status holders annually. And those are not necessarily the houses on the Groene Dijk.
A group of neighboring entrepreneurs tried to stop the flex homes through procedures, because they want business and not residents, but that failed.
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